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Many holiday travelers had Christmas Eve flights canceled at the last minute because of the surge in the omicron variant. Airlines say a spike in cases has left them short staffed.

The former tenants of the Merkle Hotel in Tacoma, Wash., struggled to find housing after they were forced from their building in 2018. Many didn't have a place to go.

A holiday musical review celebrating the work of Cole Porter is playing to rapturous audiences in Paris.

For the second year, the Christmas eve celebration in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was muted by the pandemic precautions.

Forget the Build Back Better bill or the Jan. 6 investigation. Right now, some members of Congress seem to be more focused on the holiday decorations outside their Capitol Hill offices.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actress Maggie Gyllenhaal about her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, which takes a unique look at motherhood. Now in theaters, the film will be on Netflix on Dec. 31.

The father of NPR's Uri Berliner packed a stuffed monkey when he fled the Nazis as a child. He kept the toy for decades before donating it to a museum, an act that led to a remarkable discovery.

Former police officer Kim Potter was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright. NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Wright's aunt Naisha Wright and attorney Benjamin Crump.

Health experts worldwide are warning that the battle against the Omicron variant is far from over. Three NPR correspondents provide the latest on the pandemic from Europe and South Asia.

To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.